Off With The Grave Clothes
by C. T. Studd

The devil threatens us and declares he will put us into the burning fiery furnace of starvation. Our reply is just this, "O Satan, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter; if it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us and He will deliver us. But if not, we will not serve your gods nor ask for our lives of any but Jesus." No people have ever heard more of the love and the blood and the sacrifice of Jesus than these people; some have not believed, or if they have they have failed to respond to His love, perhaps because they have not seen it in us. It may be God will teach them and others through our little bit of sacrifice which they can see. If so, they are welcome. If we go to be with Him, what an honor! For He must want us nearly as badly as we want Him. If we stay on, we shall live something like Lazarus must have lived after they had taken off the grave-clothes. My word! I wonder he could ever sit still again, even to dine that time with Jesus! We don’t want to go to Heaven in golden slippers nor on a flower bed of ease. My anxiety is that I fear God is just having a game of hide-and-seek with us and when we least expect it He will burst out upon us.

-Taken from Fool and Fanactic by C. T Studd